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Subject: Re: Topos available from WWU
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:40:13 -0700
From: Carlos Diaz <[log in to unmask]>
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Though the USGS has placed a lot of those topographic maps onto their
Maps Locator website online, in order to view it you will need a maps
plotter to print it out. People still want their maps on paper so they
can take it with them on their hiking trips and such. People want to
look at something at one glance and not small pieces of a map. Maps are
a medium that most folks still want to handle on paper. Do maps take a
lot of space? Yes, they do...but, it is worth it.
From now on, beginning this year, we are going to have to download the
7.5 minute series maps from the USGS' Maps Locator page. Libraries will
certainly help the economy by buying map plotters since they will become
a necessity, even just to print out your own state's maps.
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Carlos A. Diaz
James E. Brooks Library
Central Washington University
Mailstop 7548
Ellensburg, WA 98926
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Carlos' phone: (509) 963-1545
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>>> "Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee"
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Subject: RE: Topos available from WWU
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:31:05 -0400
From: Sarjeant, Bruce C <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>
I am going to step in it here, but... Just my two cents (as a WWU
alum), but it seems a shame to be gutting this collection. I realize
that libraries across the USA (ours included) are getting rid of paper
(paper anything) and embracing "electronic", but what will be left of a
world-class map collection at WWU?
Bruce Sarjeant
Reference, Documents & Maps Librarian
Lydia M. Olson Library
Northern Michigan University
1401 Presque Isle Ave
Marquette, MI 49855
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906-227-1580
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Subject: Re: Topos available from WWU
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Subject: Re: Topos available from WWU
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:12:27 -0400
From: Michael Fry <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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Hi Rob,
I don't know what your real mission is, but take care. Very few (no?)
USGS 1:24000 maps have been printed/distributed in the last five years
(except perhaps those jointly produced with the USFS, which cover a
small fraction of the US). Many USGS 1:24000s (e.g., Washington, DC)
hadn't been updated in nearly 30 years--the most recent print editions
are well over 5 years old. So if your goal is simply to keep only the
new, "current" print 1:24000s, you may be left with nothing but Forest
Service editions...and a very skimpy print topo map collection with
little or no coverage of some states.
But maybe that's the goal. ?
$.02. (And maybe less since I'm no longer in the FDLP pipeline.)
HTH.
mf
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Senior Map Librarian
National Geographic Society
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On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Angie Cope, American Geographical
Society Library, UW Milwaukee <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
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Subject: Topos available from WWU
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:41:39 +0000
From: Robert Lopresti <[log in to unmask]
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Western Washington University intends to discard all 1:24,000 US
topographical maps from the following states that are more than five
years old. We will send any to libraries for the cost of shipping and
mailing. If there are specific maps you want we will attempt, within
reason, to find them. Please let us know by Friday October 14 if you
want any of them.
If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know.
Rob
Rob Lopresti
Map Librarian, Liaison for Huxley College and Government Information
Librarian
Western Washington University
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Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Nebraska
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Vermont
Virginia
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
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Michael Fry
Senior Map Librarian
National Geographic Society
1145 17th St. N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
202.857.7098
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